The Great City of Kyot​o京都 and its Temples Welcomes You!

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Kyoto is located in the island of honshu, Japan and is the seventh largest city and has a population of 1.4 million people.
Kyoto has countless amounts of shrines and temples through out the city.
Kyoto is known for its beauty.
We , Andrea and Breanne are going to take you on a tour of this cities beautiful Shrines. We are going to show you the reasons to visit
Kyoto 京都 Japan!
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These are some of the temples we will be taking you on a tour too!


The Nanzenji Temple (南禅寺)

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This temple located at the end of Kyoto's Higashiyama mountains. The Nanzenji Temple is one of the most important zen
temples in Japan! The Nanzenji Temple is part of a big "complex". It has "subtemples" all around it.
This zen temple dates back to the 13 hundreds. In this picture above, that is a rock garden which the Nanzenji Temple is famous for
as well as being know for zen.



This is the Kinkakuji (Golden Pavilion)

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Kinkakuji (金閣寺, Golden Pavilion) This zen temple is located in Northern Kyoto! Its two top floors are covered completely in gold!
This zen temple is over looking a large pond and this temple, throughout history has been burnt down many times.

The Kiyomizudera Temple

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Kiyomizudera (清水寺, "Pure Water Temple") is located in the Eastern part of Japan. It was founded in 780 and Kiyomizudera is known for its
wooden stage the comes out of the main hall , 13 meters above the hill side. Which gives the visitors to the temple a really nice view of the
Maple and Cherry Blossom trees.




We will be touring you through these Famous Temples in Japan!

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Kiyomizudera Temple
Kinkakuji Temple